File #: O-13-20    Version: 1 Name:
Type: Ordinance Status: Adopted
File created: 3/19/2020 In control: City Council
On agenda: 5/26/2020 Final action: 5/26/2020
Title: Sidewalk Signs - For the purpose of extending the DATE FOR SUBMISSION OF A SIDEWALK SIGN PERMIT APPLICATION AND A sidewalk sign permit fee waiver to a date certain.
Sponsors: Elly Tierney
Attachments: 1. O-13-20 Sidewalk Signs Permit Fee Waiver Extension.pdf, 2. O-13-20 Staff Report.pdf, 3. O-13-20 Fiscal Impact Note.pdf, 4. O-13-20 Amendment 1 Tierney.pdf, 5. O-13-20 SIGNED.pdf

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Sidewalk Signs - For the purpose of extending the DATE FOR SUBMISSION OF A SIDEWALK SIGN PERMIT APPLICATION AND A sidewalk sign permit fee waiver to a date certain. 

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CITY COUNCIL OF THE

City of Annapolis

 

Ordinance 13-20

 

Introduced by: Alderwoman Tierney

 

AN ORDINANCE concerning

 

Sidewalk Signs

 

FOR  the purpose of extending the DATE FOR SUBMISSION OF A SIDEWALK SIGN PERMIT APPLICATION AND A sidewalk sign permit fee waiver to a date certain.

 

BY     repealing and re-enacting with amendments the uncodified provision of O-30-19, Section II of the ordinances of the Annapolis City Council, 2019

 

WHEREAS,  O-42-18 authorized sidewalk signs with certain conditions; provided a definition of “sidewalk sign”; and provided for a delayed effective date of the sidewalk sign permit fee.

 

WHEREAS,  O-30-19 authorized the Director of Planning and Zoning to revoke or suspend a sign permit approval in certain circumstances; and provided for a delayed effective date of the sidewalk sign permit fee. 

 

WHEREAS,  the City Council wishes to extend the sidewalk sign permit fee waiver set forth in the uncodified provision of O-30-19,  Section II to a date certain to allow applicants additional time to bring their applications into compliance with the sections of the Annapolis City Code that regulate sidewalk signs.

 

SECTION I:  BE IT ESTABLISHED AND ORDAINED BY THE ANNAPOLIS CITY COUNCIL that Ordinance 30-19, Section II of the Annapolis City Council shall be amended to read as follows:

 

SECTION II:  AND BE IT FURTHER ESTABLISHED AND ORDAINED BY THE ANNAPOLIS CITY COUNCIL that the sidewalk sign permit fee shall be waived for 180 days commencing upon the adoption of Ordinance 42-18 UNTIL MAY 1, 2020 THE DATE FOR SUBMISSION OF A SIDEWALK SIGN PERMIT APPLICATION AND THE SIDEWALK SIGN FEE WAIVER SHALL BE EXTENDED UNTIL JANUARY 1, 2021.

 

 

Explanation:

UPPERCASE indicates matter added to existing law

Strikethrough indicates matter stricken from existing law.

Underlining indicates amendments.